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...American Airways, frightened Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara & wife were fired at by mobsters who put several bullets into the plane but did no serious damage. On landing at Miami, Dr. Ferrara was jeered by members of the local Cuban revolutionary Junta one of whom challenged him to duel. Having fought eleven duels, Dr. Ferrara was about to accept when a U. S. policeman intervened...
...Berlin sword-handy Ludwig Diels, Chief of the Prussia Police who now have 12,000 Germans behind barbed wire, said last week that he has accepted from prominent prisoners eleven challenges to rapier duels, six to sabre duels and one to a pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There...
...knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four ''strikes'' or blows. One of the important tasks of the officials was to straighten out the rapiers, at times bent almost...
...Heidelberg last week it was announced that to celebrate the removal of government prohibition of duels, the 34 student fighting corps would hold a duel a day henceforth. Nonmember spectators will be banned from combats of the five most exclusive corps. Herr Ruehlemann, University bandagist, took advantage of the occasion to fill his windows with dueling blades, lint, surgical needles, disinfectants. In the midst of the display was a photograph of Adolf Hitler.-ED. Fencers From Offenbach Sirs...
...United States Government might abandon the gold standard. . . ." These were soft words for foreign consumption. Hardly was the speech finished before Lombard Street tipsters were insisting that the present ?150,000,000 fund would be raised to ?200,000,000 possibly to ?500,00,000 in preparation for a duel with the dollar. Wrote Economist John Maynard Keynes: "It demonstrates that we intend to remain the masters of our own situation. The United States is perfectly entitled to reduce the gold content of the dollar. There is much to be said for this policy, not only for America...